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| SET vs OTL Marty, I understand what you are saying. I want the amp to play what is good in a recording, and with the poor recordings, not get upset by artifacts in the recordings. In other words, forgiving? -but without giving up anything to resolution. Its ... | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Sticky tape does not need to be a problem!Old tape can be 'baked' at 150 degrees for about 30-40 minutes to get rid of the sticky/shedding issues. It can then be used for years before having to be 'baked' again. You can leave it on the reel as lon... | |
| Phono stage hiss from BOTH SS and Tube Normal? Anything that can amplify will also have a noise artifact.The fact that you get noise when you turn the volume all the way up is not significant unless you also play the system at that volume setting. | |
| SET vs OTL Martykl, one thing about SETs that makes them quite different from OTLs is the way their distortion signature interacts with the human ear/brain system. SETs tend to have very low distortion at low power, but on transients, where the power occurs,... | |
| SET vs OTL The Merlin needs a little more power than most SETs can produce, if you really want to hear what the speaker or the SET is capable of. With that speaker, hands down an OTL will do better. | |
| SOTA reel to reel players Hi Pedrillo, that's a loaded question- the answer is that a table is better if you have direct-to disc. Otherwise, tapes **stomp** on LPs.IMO, the best tape machines will have an all-tube signal path. You can set up almost any transport to work wi... | |
| SET vs OTL Paul, I like the type 45 tube a lot too. Not many speakers that will work with a 45 SET though. I am using a set of Coral Betas, which are fine as long as you don't expect any volume.Larryi, We've been doing this over 30 years now and all our amps... | |
| SET vs OTL Paulfolbrecht, since you asked- in our amps there is only one stage of gain, not two. Most SETs I've seen have either two or three. This is because there is usually some gain in the output, while in our amps there is none.Crossover distortion, FWI... | |
| SET vs OTL The harmonic structure of a good OTL will be the 3rd harmonic, which the only harmonic that the ear considers musical and thus does not object to. SETs have that and the 2nd harmonic.Paul, what happens with these harmonics is not that they are not... | |
| SET vs OTL Aarif, removing distortion never causes an amplifier to have fake neutrality.OTLs have an economy of scale- the bigger you make them, the more efficient they can run. A big OTL that can make 200 watts will very likely be comfortable on 4 ohms, som... | |
| SET vs OTL A single-ended triode amp will always have an output transformer. The transformer is both the boon and doom of the amp- it allows the tube to drive the speaker, but the bigger you make the transformer, the more limited the bandwidth will be.As a r... | |
| best WOOFER ??? Mapman, the new field coil 15" woofers in the Classic Audio Loudspeakers are also really impressive. They are faster than the TADs, more efficient and have similar low end response. | |
| Atma-Sphere S-30 MK3 Update..... Microstrip, they are built in a very similar fashion, and so have similar internal links. | |
| In Europe, owning Coincident Super Victory/ TV IV? I'm not in Europe, but we find that we need about 60 watts or so to really make the speaker sing. | |
| Atma-Sphere S-30 MK3 Update..... Pubul57, its true that we don't match the tubes. They have a mu of 2, which is to say that they have the lowest gain of any power tube made. So you have to drive them with some really high input voltages, compared to a pentode. The result is that ... |